My great-grandfather

This is the funeral-card of my great-grandfather,
who fought in the Wehrmacht during WW 2.

As far as I know, he was a very friendly and brave man,
he didn´t do crimes and was just a normal front-soldier
fighting for his fatherland.

Unfortunately he died near Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and didn´t come back from war. He died, when he watched the enemy on the top of a bunker. A bomb hit the bunker...

The text of the funeral-card is much more interesting than modern cards of course^^:

Christian memory in supplication,
to the fallen hero

NAME OF THE SOLDIER (sorry I don´t want to tell his name in the internet, to avoid offending words)

Obergefreiter (Lance Corporal) in an Infantry-Regiment,
who died on the 23th of January 1942 in front of Petersburg in the best man-age of 29 years, the hero-death.
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Im heißen Kampf im Feindesland,
traf Dich die Todeswunde.
Die Lieben Dein im Heimatland,
traf schwer die bitt´re Kunde.
Den Heldentod für´s Vaterland,
bist Liebster Du gestorben.
Hast mutig Dir mit tapf´rer Hand,
den Himmelsthron erworben.
Du warst so gut, starbst viel zu früh,
vergessen werden wir Dich nie!

English translation (as good as my English is...it contains a lot of poetic or old words):

In the painful battle in the enemy-country,
the death-wound hit you.
The beloved ones in the homeland,
hit hard the bitter message.
The hero-death for the fatherland,
you died, our beloved one.
You bravely have with strong hand,
the heavens-throne gained.
You were so great, you died much too early,
but we will never forget you!

NOTICE:

I will not accept any offending words against my great-grandfather!!! He was no criminal and he wanted to save his family and comrades, it doesn´t matter, if his government was bad. He was not!